How To Floor Tiller A Bow

Follow me as i build a hazel longbow.

How to floor tiller a bow.

Place the end of the tiller stick the side where there are no notches on the arrow notch or on the rest of the bow. Tillering a wonky bow to first brace. We also had to do a little. In this video i describe how to tiller a self bow with a simple tool called a tillering stick.

Now pull down a few inches on the string while observing how the limbs bend. Today we ll go through most the tillering process. Yesterday we got this bow roughed out and nearly to the floor tillering stage. Understanding tiller most shooters regardless of preferred shooting style draw a traditional bow at a more severe angle on the bottom than on the top.

If you are correcting wet wood it is best to use steam and the technique dean lays out in hob. The string is then stretched to fit into one notch on the tiller stick. Basically the bottom limb is drawn a bit farther than the top limb each shot and the top limb gets a head start on the bottom limb upon release. This must be done on dry wood or it will check.

Noble savage outdoors 256 views. I almost always get my bows to floor tiller and then use a heatgun and caul to correct side to side deviations and also induce about 1 1 2 of reflex in the profile. Hang the bow up horizontally on a branch or piece of scrap wood by the handhold. How to make a bow part 3 roughing out and floor tillering duration.